A companion to Shakespeare studies by Harley Granville-Barker(
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The studies in this volume cover all aspects of Shakespearian scholarship. It begins with Shakespeare's biography, describes the theatres and companies of the time, and analyses Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic genius. There are also studies of his work in relation to the English spoken at the time, his use and knowledge of music, and his sources. Other essays cover the national and social background. A final group touches on the text of the plays, Shakespearian criticism and scholarship, and Shakespeare in the theatre

Introducing Shakespeare by G. B Harrison(
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Major British writers by G. B Harrison(
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Includes Chaucer; Spenser; Shakespeare; Bacon; Donne; Milton; Dryden; Swift; Pope; Johnson; Boswell

Elizabethan plays and players by G. B Harrison(
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Indhold: The building of the theatre ; John Lyly ; Stage and university ; New dramatists ; Greene turns playwright ; The death of Greene ; The death of Marlowe ; Edward Alleyn and the Admiral's men ; The Chamberlain's men ; The humours ; Ben Jonson ; The Globe ; Boy players ; Essex's rebellion ; The stage war ; The end of an era

Shakespeare's tragedies by G. B Harrison(
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First published in 1951. G B Harrison here recognizes that Shakespeare's tragedies were intended for performance in a theatre and that the playwright's conspicuous gift among his contemporaries was a sympathy for joy and sorrow, pity and terror, and right and wrong of his people. The plays covered are: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens

Shakespeare at work, 1592-1603 by G. B Harrison(
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Shakespeare against the background of his times, his world of the theatre and his dramatic development through the last years of Elizabeth's reign. Originally published in 1933 and republished in 1958, this great work is an imagining, in plain narrative, of the life of Shakespeare backed with evidence of the history of the stage. Whatever wider significances modern critics distill from Shakespeare's plays, it remains an elementary fact that he wrote plays to interest and entertain his contemporaries and this book takes a look at the immediate interests of his audience and how his work responde

England in Shakespeare's day by G. B Harrison(
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First published in 1928. This book collects together over one hundred sources by Elizabethan authors which show English life in English literature. Most of them have been selected as much to catch the atmosphere as the moods of the period, and come from the great Elizabethan writers who can transmit the essence of the time. A 'gallery of Elizabethan pictures' rather than a complete survey of life in Shakespeare's day, the spelling and punctuation have been modernized throughout. To enable those who wish to read the extracts in their context, references are given to the most accessible

Grace abounding to the chief of sinners by John Bunyan(
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You've heard his namenow read his classic spiritual autobiography. Here is John Bunyan's Grace Abounding, an important and powerful book abridged and updated for today's reader. Written more than three centuries ago, this Christian classic still speaks to readers, addressing concerns that trouble the human heart today just as they did in the 1600s. Grace Abounding gives an account of God's exceeding goodness in the life of his poor servant John Bunyanas well as Bunyan's call to the ministry and his imprisonment for that ministry. It's a powerful introduction to a giant of the faith, and an encouraging story of God's power to change people